Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 150

Although the army that followed Zhang Xianzhong to the outside of Chengdu did not have the millions he claimed, there were five to 10,000+.

The number of people directly catches up with the population in Chengdu today.

With so many people, even if not everyone has enough to eat, the amount of food consumed every day is still not a small amount.

Although Zhang Xianzhong seized a lot in Chongqing, and captured prefectures and counties along the way, he also gained a lot, but all the food and grass could not sustain so many troops for too long.

Whether it is Li Dingguo and others or Zhang Xianzhong, they are very clear that if Chengdu is not captured within five days, they will run out of food.

Once the food and grass are cut off, the so-called million-dollar army will collapse without a fight, which becomes a joke.

But when Zhang Xianzhong heard Li Dingguo's reminder, he still had a relaxed expression that didn't care much.

He swallowed the crumbled bones in his mouth, and said, "Don't panic, there are so many fertile fields outside Chengdu, the rice has already been filled with grain, and they can be harvested next month.

If there is really not enough food and grass, let's harvest the food in advance to eat, and still starve to death? "

If the grain is harvested before it is ripe, the production will be severely reduced.

Thinking of this, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu couldn't help sighing in their hearts, and said nothing more.

Sun Kewang said: "Father, I see that although the rain has stopped, the clouds have not completely dispersed, maybe there will be rain tomorrow.

In the afternoon, the son only stormed to the west for less than half an hour, and the soldiers climbed to the top of the city many times.

If we can take advantage of the rain tomorrow and attack all morning, we can definitely take Chengdu City! "

"Hahaha," Zhang Xianzhong was obviously very happy when he heard Sun Kewang's words, and said with a smile, "I think so too, this God is not on the side of the Ming Dynasty, we will definitely win Chengdu tomorrow!"

Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu also felt that it might continue to rain tomorrow.

Even if they don't shoot continuously, it's still beneficial to the Great Western Army - even if they don't fight, the cannons at the top of the city will be silenced, so that they can dig tunnels on the moat side with confidence.

As for the impact of rain on digging tunnels, it is enough to make a circle of soil around the tunnel entrance to prevent rainwater from pouring back.

Therefore, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu looked at each other, and expressed their views to Zhang Xianzhong together.

"My son will definitely let the soldiers attack the city with all their strength tomorrow, and try to take Chengdu in one fell swoop!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Xianzhong's mood completely improved.

In his heart, Chengdu is already in his pocket, and it is only a matter of time before he wins it...

It's the end of the ugly hour (closer to 3 am).

The clouds over Chengdu covered the stars and the moon, and only the city walls of Chengdu and the Daxi army camps on all sides were dotted with fire.

The light from the fire was so weak that the rest of the place was pitch black.

The north city gate opened a crack silently, and hundreds of people in black cloaks left the city like ghosts. Under the cover of the dark night, they quickly approached Zhang Xianzhong's camp in the north with something.

When it was more than two miles away from the city, these hundreds of people squatted down on a slope that was not too high or too big.

The leader with sparkling almond eyes is the red lady leading the team.

During the day, when Hong Niangzi learned that Zhang Xianzhong was in the north, she personally brought a team of Flying Eagles to use drones to investigate the layout of Zhang Xianzhong's camp and determine the specific location of Zhang Xianzhong's camp.

During the siege battle, although Zhang Xianzhong's army was only three miles away from the city wall, his camp was set up five or six miles away from the city.

Zhang Xianzhong personally commanded the northern camp with 8 to [-] people, which is the side with the largest number of bandits.

If the camp was arranged in a circular or square shape according to normal habits, it would probably cover an area of ​​two or three miles.

However, in order to encircle the city of Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong let the troops from all sides camp together, and the four camps actually became four connected arcs—the camp was long, but not too deep.

However, Zhang Xianzhong has been fighting for many years, and he is used to being cautious and cunning. Even though his army is at its peak and his heart is very swollen, he still habitually arranges the old camp in the safest place, which is the apex of the arc-shaped camp.

After Hong Niangzi scouted the location of Zhang Xianzhong's old camp during the day, she found that it was more than seven miles away from the city wall!

Although the four light drones that Hao Guangming bought for Auntie Zhu have been modified, the farthest controllable flight distance has reached seven miles, but the best controllable flight distance is still within five miles.

That's why Hong Niangzi lurked two miles away from the city with the main staff to carry out the "UAV beheading plan".

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Regardless of being stained with mud, the red lady knelt on one knee on the south side of the slope and leaned forward, watching Zhang Xianzhong's camp with an infrared telescope, her pair of willow-leaf eyebrows like blades could not help but slightly frowned.

Because the camp of the bandits was arc-shaped, although their position was still more than five miles away from Zhang Xianzhong's old camp, they were only three or four miles away from the camps on the two wings to the north.

And through the infrared function of the telescope, she clearly saw that there were many fuzzy red figures scattered in the three miles.

These are the sentries of the bandits.

There are clear whistles and dark whistles.

The nearest secret sentry was just over a mile away from them, so it was quite close.

After retreating to the ground of the slope, Hong Niangzi said: "At first I thought about going one mile further, but now it seems that I can't do it."

"Then can you control the drone to implement the plan here?" Yang Zhan, who was also wearing a black cloak, asked.

This time Hong Niangzi went out of the city to carry out the "drone beheading plan", in addition to most of the members of the Flying Eagles, there were also [-] warriors carefully selected by her.

Because once the thieves found out their existence, they would probably take advantage of their absolute numbers and directly send troops to fight back instead of defending the camp.

If this happens, someone must be able to protect the Flying Eagles for a period of time.

However, it is not easy for the brigade to go out of the city with the Flying Eagles from the beginning-it is too easy to be noticed by the bandits.

That's why Hong Niangzi selected [-] most capable fighters from the army, and asked Yang Zhan and Liu Zhenfan, two of the most capable fighters in Chengdu, to act as temporary commanders.

In addition, there are [-] elite infantry and [-] cavalry on standby inside the north city gate, ready to go out of the city to support and respond at any time.

After listening to Yang Zhan's words, Hong Niangzi smiled and said, "Implementation is definitely possible, but the requirements are higher and you need to be more careful."

"That's good." Yang Zhan heaved a sigh of relief.

Even with Yang Zhan's knowledge and courage, he was quite nervous at this time to assist in the execution of such a military mission that focused on "magic weapons".

Afterwards, Yang Zhan, Cao Xun and others escorted Hong Niangzi and other pilots to control the drone.

I saw that several pre-pilots carefully loaded triple-distilled alcohol (above 90°) into the bellies of four light drones that were originally used to hold pesticides.

Each drone was loaded with ten catties of alcohol before stopping.

Afterwards, Hong Niangzi personally controlled a light drone, and the other pilots controlled the other three, took off on the spot and rose to an altitude of 300 meters, and then flew to Zhang Xianzhong's camp together.

Although these four light-duty drones have undergone certain noise reduction treatment during modification, after all, the empty aircraft weighs [-] to [-] kilograms, so the sound of the propeller rotation in actual flight is not too low.

Especially in such a quiet night.

Therefore, when the four light drones took off, the sound was heard by the secret sentry of the Great Western Army more than a mile away.

These secret whistles are not alone, but in groups of two.

Hearing a small but quite obvious buzzing sound coming from the south, one of them couldn't help whispering: "Old Liu, there is movement in the south, do you hear it?"

Old Liu was sleeping at first, but he was not fast asleep, but half awake and half asleep.

After being woken up, his ears moved slightly, and he said, "There is indeed a sound, but it doesn't sound like a human being. What kind of strange wind is falling?"

"Strange wind? Could it be a ghost?"

"After killing so many people, your mother is still afraid of ghosts?" Lao Liu sneered, and then said: "Be careful, the voice seems to be on top of our heads."

As he spoke, Lao Liu lifted the weeds covering his head and looked up to the sky.

(End of this chapter)